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Course Outline

  1. Understanding Requirements Management 
    • Definition of Requirements Management
    • Key Tasks in Requirements Management
    • Objectives and Benefits of Requirements Management
    • Developing a Requirements Management Plan
    • Applicable Standards
  2. The Requirements Information Model
    • Core Principles
    • Presentation Formats
    • Constructing a Requirements Information Model
  3. Assigning Attributes and Creating Views for Requirements 
    • Objectives of Attribute Assignment
    • Utilizing an Attribute Scheme
    • Designing an Attribute Schema
    • Managing Changes to Attribute Schemas
    • Goals and Types of Views
    • Defining Views and Associated Risks
    • Optimizing Attribute Data and Creating Views
  4. Evaluating and Prioritizing Requirements 
    • Principles of Evaluation
    • Prioritizing Requirements
    • Ad-Hoc Prioritization Techniques
    • Two-Criteria Classification
    • 100-Dollar Technique
    • Analytical Prioritization Techniques
    • Combining Prioritization Techniques
  5. Version and Change Management 
    • Versioning of Requirements 
      • Version Control for Requirements and Documents
      • Requirements Configuration
      • Requirements Baseline
      • Branching Requirements
    • Change Management for Requirements 
      • Causes, Sources, and Timing of Requirement Changes
      • Types of Changes to Requirements
      • Analyzing and Documenting Requirement Stability
    • Change Management Process
  6. Requirements Traceability 
    • Reasons for Requirements Traceability 
      • Defining Requirements Traceability
      • Importance of Traceability for Requirements and Artifacts
    • Different Traceability Views
    • Relationship Types for Traceability
    • Presentation Formats for Traceability Relationships
      • Implicit and Explicit Documentation of Traceability
      • Bidirectional and Unidirectional Traceability Relationships
      • Forms of Presentation for Traceability Relationships
    • Developing a Project-Specific Traceability Strategy
    • Creating and Using Specific Traceability Models 
      • Process for Defining a Specific Traceability Model
      • Applying a Specific Traceability Model
    • Evaluating Implemented Traceability Measures
    • Challenges in Traceability of Non-textual Artifacts
  7. Variant Management for Requirements 
    • Utilizing Requirement Variants
    • Explicit Documentation and Evaluation of Variants
    • Feature Modeling
  8. Reporting in Requirements Management 
    • Goals and Benefits of Reporting in Requirements Management
    • Establishing a Reporting System in RM 
      • Interfaces
      • Report Contents
      • Best Practices for Developing and Applying Reporting
      • Report Definition Process
    • Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in Requirements Engineering 
      • KPIs in Requirements Management
      • Deriving KPIs Using the Goal-Question-Metric Method
    • Risks and Problems in Reporting
  9. Managing Requirements Engineering Processes
    • Requirements Engineering as a Process
    • Parameters of the Requirements Engineering Process
    • Documenting the Requirements Engineering Process
    • Monitoring and Controlling the Requirements Engineering Process
    • Improving the Requirements Engineering Process
  10. Requirements Management in Agile Projects 
    • Background
    • Requirements Management in Agile Contexts
    • Mapping RM Activities to Scrum Activities
  11. Utilizing Tools in Requirements Management 
    • The Role of Tools in Requirements Management
    • Basic Procedure for Tool Selection
    • Data Exchange Between Requirements Management Tools

Requirements

  • Foundational knowledge of requirements engineering
  • To sit for the exam, candidates must hold either the "IREB Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering – Foundation Level" certificate or the "Requirements Engineering" certificate from the British Computer Society (BCS).
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